Download Free Bagatelle Billiard And Pool Balls Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Bagatelle Billiard And Pool Balls and write the review.

Excerpt from A History and Description of Billiards: Its Salutary Advantages; With Instructions How to Play the Game, and All the Rules Relating to Billiards, Pool, Bagatelle, Shuffle-Board, Bowling and Ten Pins It is said that the game, when introduced into France. Became very much improved upon the original crude game imported from the East, and that durin the reign of one of the Henrys an attirah of Paris, named enri de Vigne, was commissioned by the King to design and manufacture a billiard table, with a bed of stone, covered with cloth, hav ing a hole and hazard pocket in the centre, into which the balls were driven; this table was to be appropriated to the use of the Dauphin, at that time a lunatic at the palace of Versailles. The game was much patronized during the reign of Henry III., at which time it received its appellation of the noble game. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.